Posted on 12/11/2023 6:51:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
With the resignation of woke University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill, following an execrable performance addressing antisemitism in Congress, some kind of dam has broken. Now academics with actual achievements are beginning to speak out against the wokesterism that has laid low the reputations of their universities.
CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria, who's best described as a left-leaning moderate, has thrown down the gauntlet about woke universities, calling them indoctrination centers, not places of learning, and demanded that universities return to their core mission of seeking the actual truth, demanding excellence, instead of creating their own "truths."
He's on fire here:
My take: pic.twitter.com/smjkQ9fngE — Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) December 10, 2023
He wrote up his remarks in this CNN commentary America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.
My take: pic.twitter.com/smjkQ9fngE
— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) December 10, 2023">here, concluding:
What we saw in the House hearing this week was the inevitable result of decades of the politicization of universities. America’s top colleges are no longer seen as bastions of excellence but as partisan outfits, which means they will keep getting buffeted by these political storms as they emerge. They should abandon this long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.
He's not just criticizing wokesters, he's offering a way out -- through the sorely needed return to focus on excellence.
He cites DEI as a villain, discriminating against achievement in favor of skin color, along with racial quotas in admissions, again, penalizing the achievers in favor of racial numbers, then speech codes, which are obvious chillers of free speech,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Of course.
These people are like teeth in a sharks mouth.....when one falls away another one pops in to replace it.
I think its going to get much worse for Academia before it gets better. Wokism is a freight train that’s been running at full speed for at least the last two decades. You are not going to stop it on a dime.
btt
With UPenn's president out, Bill Ackman is now lasering in on Harvard and MIT's presidents
It’s time for the alumni to get real
“…and demanded that universities return to their core mission of seeking the actual truth, demanding excellence, instead of creating their own “truths.”
Uh, doing so would then make them “wrong” . They are their own god and cannot be wrong. We are wrong and evil, they are right and good.
Good analogy.
Gotta speak louder.....
Maybe she also identifies as an indian like that woman in congress.
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